Digital Library Federation Forum, April 12,
2006
Unbundling the ILS: Deploying an e-commerce
catalog search solution
Future Plans
nOngoing tweaks:
–Continued usability testing
–Relevance ranking algorithms & spell correction
thresholds
–Additional browsing options
nEndeca 2.0
ideas
–FRBR-ized display
–Discussions with OCLC regarding FAST (Faceted Access to Subject Terms) and FRBR
–Patron-generated refinements (folksonomies?)
–Enrich records with supplemental Web Services content – more usable TOCs, book reviews, etc.
–The death of authority searching (?)
–More integration with QuickSearch, other data
repositories, and
third-party discovery tools